Those are precisely what I was looking for. I didn't know about &history --
it's not referenced in the :message-history docs, which is where I was
looking. Thanks!


On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 11:12 AM, Tim Chase <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 2013-12-03 11:00, So8res wrote:
> > Specifically, I would like to determine the message history size
> > (20 or 200, according as vim is tiny or larger) in vimscript.
>
> Am I missing something, or can you just test
>
>   if &history > 20
>     call do_fancy_stuff()
>   endif
>
> Alternatively, if you want to detect how much a given history
> currently has in it, you can use histnr() for the corresponding
> history-name to see how many it currently holds.
>
> -tim
>
>
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